watched "no country..." a couple of weeks ago, and it just confirmed my suspicions that i'm just not into watching violent films any more. does nothing for me.

watched "there will be blood" on saturday night. thought that it was pretty great, but then again i've enjoyed all of P T Anderson's stuff so far. he has a great eye for setting up a scene... very stylish.

Indeed. The book was so knockout powerful - hard to imagine any film capturing it. Other than making one cup of tea, I didn't actually dare stop reading...

It will be an abomination with an introduced love interest, an action movie, a half assed attempt at a middle ground for the average film goer, or something brilliant that will upset a lot of people and become a cultural touchstone. That's my prediction

I liked it, it was different for sure, but thought provoking.
Although I was left wondering where the film was going at times, you could see the thought process, & the anger building throughout, FFS I wanted to **** the preacher.
What got me was why his brother left, and went to DDL for a few quid, but I think we all like revenge